quotations about beggars & begging
The petition of an empty hand is dangerous.
JOHN OF SALSBURY
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Policraticus
A beggar's scrip is never filled.
RICHARD TAVERNER
Proverbs
A man may be reputed an able man this year, and yet be a beggar the next; it is a misfortune that happens to many men, and his former reputation will signify nothing.
SIR JOHN HOLT
Reg. v. Swendsen
Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did "go from door to door and sing ballads, with a company of boys about him."
ROBERT BURTON
The Anatomy of Melancholy
What is got by begging costs dear.
ITALIAN PROVERB
Begging for help never gets you any.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
A Storm of Swords
The beggar knows much that the king can only guess.
BRANDON SANDERSON
The Way of Kings
He went among vendors and beggars and wild street preachers haranguing a lost world with vigor unknown to the sane.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Suttree
Better to die a beggar than to live a beggar.
THOMAS FULLER
Gnomologia
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Don Quixote
One beggar bideth woe that another by the door should go.
ERASMUS
Adagia
Most panhandlers are not interested in regular employment, particularly not minimum-wage labor, which many believe would scarcely be more profitable than panhandling.
OM PRAKASH GOYAL
Anti-social Patterns of Begging and Beggars
Begging is much more difficult than it looks. Contrary to popular belief, it's a high art form that takes years of dedicated practice to master.
SOL LUCKMAN
Beginner's Luke
All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.
WALTER BENJAMIN
Reflections
A shameless beggar must have a short denial.
THOMAS FULLER
Gnomologia
I'd just as soon be a beggar as king,
And the reason I'll tell you for why:
A king cannot swagger, nor drink like a beggar,
Nor be half so happy as I.
CECIL SHARPE
Folk Songs from Somerset
This is neither begging, borrowing, nor robbery;
Yet it hath a twang of them all.
PHILIP MASSINGER
The Guardian
When beggars die, there are no comets seen;
The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Julius Caesar
You taught me first to beg, and now, methinks,
You teach me how a beggar should be answer'd.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Merchant of Venice
Beggars, beggars are the happy folk;
They love one another. Long live beggars!
PIERRE-JEAN DE BERANGER
Les Gueux